intriguing story for you to. visit. north korea. successfully conducted a nuclear test defying un. security council later today. iran is called. to be destroyed following today's test by pyongyang this is the country's. of course a shortage of basic medicine. and the police repelled yet another attack on the presidential palace in cairo with water we were given the chance to meet members of. the group taking the lead in the

regime street protests. with worldwide news. thank you very much for joining the program today. let's get straight to our breaking news story here on this hour. strongly condemning carrying out a controlled explosion of a nuclear device north korea confirmed its third underground nuclear test. what it called a quote outrageous u.s. . reclusive state has announced that it successfully detonated a menu tries nuclear devices in underground test site to find orders from the un security council condemnation is expected across the board especially from the west

an emergency meeting at the u.n. security council has been called upon ki-moon and south korea have already been vocal about their very serious concerns now the main issue is that this puts north korea one step closer to its goal of building a nuclear warhead small enough to mount on a long range missile capable of reaching the united states and still early in washington but this is seen as a direct threat from a direct message i should say from new leader kim jong un to president obama just hours before he gives his annual state of the union surely president obama will react somehow most likely by threatening more sanctions and further isolation but the question is not to want to read from its nuclear ambitions and to the right track if there is a real danger to the. parties and he's in our reporting right in the meantime major specialist tim bale he thinks that a foreign sanctions will fail to rein in north korea's nuclear ambitions as

pyongyang can only be appeased through the issue of negotiation. i don't know anyone leap in the. elite really think so you know will. they say. anything they think you will do is really uncertain no country really changes obviously under sanctions if the alternative has to be absolutely required it was worse than the sanctions and that was the case because so north korea in the sense constrained it you could acquiesce to american muslims . but that in fact their eyes would be worse than what americans to do to them as sanctions so they will do first of the year and there will first appear until the americans until the negotiations over. whether that will happen because

a lot of matter or it's always good for you to get involved with our stories here at r.t. we're inviting you today to tell us your thoughts on this developing story with north korea that r.t. dot com where i asking you for example the well do you agree with north korea pursuing national security measures through the testing of nuclear weapons are still the majority here. maybe we agree in a way but their reasoning well could be flawed doubts about a third just over a third now are saying yes it's a good idea just ask saddam hussein then coming in in the world the third or fourth position now of bedded down to fifteen percent for this hour no they are mad men asking for war down to the bare minority no no they say they wish they had been left an alternative perhaps not being left an alternative with a continued western sanctions or is loving your opinion of r.t. dot com that's where you can cast your vote right now. it's.

good to have you with us here on r.t. today iran has called for the destruction of all nuclear. test by north korea however it says that some nations should still have the right to conduct nuclear activities but for peaceful purposes that's iran's also confirmed it started turning part of its higher grade enriched uranium into a nuclear fuel for research reactor. the u.n. nuclear watchdog prepares to hold another round of talks with iran on its otolith program i mean most severe international sanctions are putting the squeeze on everyday life and making it harder for iranians to obtain basic medicine. for

national reports from tehran a drug deficit in many cases is leading. comes. behind the smile less pain and dispatch a vast and they run in with blood a cancer has just received he's made a scene but there is no guarantee he'll get it tomorrow i've asked jokes about patients being patient but sadly has no choice. it's so hard to get treatment these days it's not that i don't get any at all but you have to wait a long time and if you get it that only means someone else has missed. the reason for the drug shortage sanctions imposed by western countries in the islamic republic they're not directly targeting the pharmaceutical or medical sectors but they hit banks in the case of trade restrictions. unfortunately many foreign companies stopped selling us drugs they're not allowed to have crude relations with iran and people predict price with their lives. iran's

officials warn it may have an impact far beyond its borders. if we have a disease or pedantic and are unable to vaccinate the population it could spread easily to neighboring countries and the third to many outside iraq. iran produces ninety six percent of its own medicine but the roma tears for half of them come from abroad more than fifty vital medicines have disappeared from the running pharmacist international sanctions came in because the foreign in britain c m a from can no longer make their way into iran people with cancer and team ophelia wait often ended with bad news that their drug is not available their chances of survival are getting ever slimmer as sanctions heat patients instead of politicians officials estimate a total of six million iranian patients could be in danger because of the drug

deficit in the local and international media reported on the first death apparently caused by the shortage a fifteen year old boy who suffers from him ophelia couldn't get the medicine he desperately needed despite a frantic search by his family and he died in hospital on. the west try to do now they tried sanctions on the military sector then we realized we actually started making progress there but they wanted to weaken destabilize the country and the government is their aim this is why they now target people so that people get angry and take to the streets protesting that. and people indeed take to the streets this is a meeting of organ donors and some whose lives have been saved by transferring a process now complicated by the like of medicine for the. again. i thank guard and the donor who returned me to lie i had heart problems and now his heart beats and

my chest and i'm again know why but the problem is that many too many are still waiting surgery became extremely expensive and the number of donors decreased so much will they have enough time that. iranian doctors find themselves facing a very hard to to ration having to decide who will get the medicine and who will not industry ration they wrote an s.o.s. letter to the u.n. chief they're still waiting for an answer griffin ocean r.t. from iran. well tear gas and water cannons have been fired by police in cairo this against a crowd of youths attacking the presidential palace while the violence are followed a demonstration accusing egypt's leader of pressure and a power grab right on the second anniversary of the toppling of hosni mubarak it was a strong rule over the country didn't last three decades as fighting becomes an almost daily scene now on the streets of cairo and amakosa movement of masked young men calling themselves the black bloc is apparently attracting more and more supporters

across the country and it's threatening the islamist earth already where the warnings telling them to prepare for hell we were granted an exclusive chance to speak to its members. well the black bloc is an idea that came about as a reaction to the negligence of our peaceful demands and also as a reaction against the oppression of the interior ministry which receives orders from the regime we stand against the oppressive and tyrant regime we call upon the interior ministry to deliver justice for those who have been killed and we will continue our demands until they are met our actions are in self-defense we are protecting ourselves but have never attacked anyone and we will always be present in egypt even after all our demands are met however we will take on a different form the aim behind our presence is to prevent injustice in any form no one listens to our demands and the proof is the number of people who are being

killed. just a bit earlier in the program by my colleague she spoke to author and journalist ramzy borrowed he believes that there are plenty of reasons for such newsgroups to sprout up when the country is so immensely polarized. for the last two years egypt has not been allowed to have a strong central government that is key or pushing the political process forward and thus the economy of the country the social cohesion and everything else as a result you have the huge vacuum and this polarization and that is allowing egyptian society to be open for exploitation what has been happening is not exactly a popular of unified popular uproar against the addictive nature but rather a political polarization that has swept through the country for the last two years reaching the point of both sides justifying violence against one another and as it

is you have this this increasing number of casualties some of it indeed due to police brutality and group calling itself the blog has a much as a new force and this latest string of clashes do you believe in the peaceful nature behind the intentions of these young men and blind. no not at all there is a possibility that in fact that the are outside those who are trying to rather fuel to the fire that is already. taking over egypt at least in the urban centers from cairo to boresight it's a phenomenon that i think resulted from the frustration disenfranchisement and just the general feeling of betrayal that the youth of egypt are feeling right now the issue is not the black bloc and particularly but why would they even appeal to the youth of egypt in the first place unless there was a vacuum and there was that the need that was a created by the lack of sensuality and the lack of confidence in the political

process in egypt with or coming from the government or from the so-called opposition or it are still to come here in the program on the issue of dangerous demographics experts and politicians in the u.k. the rapid population change could lead to a civil war and all those details just around the. world including. finance technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture.

today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. thanks very much for joining us here on our. recent studies suggest the country's most rapidly growing demographic is muslim and the trouble with native brits.

to face the problems caused by the immigration so. it's what britain is known for a vibrant multicultural society and it looks like u.k. babies are testimony to it in east london seventy seven percent of new mums were born in britain nicoletta is from romania two thousand and seven i have been here when my husband together so. come through and let it sit she recently moved here from sri lanka and it is. my dil that is more dear really a czar has three children i was born in bangladesh they get. a good living standard of living so here prefer to live in u.k. the overseas london is so ethnically diverse that white britons and now a minority here as well as in three other british cities between the years of two

thousand and one and two thousand and eleven nearly four million immigrants came to the u.k. as part of an immigration boom under the former labor government at the time westminster said that britain needed working migrants to propel the economy this is tower hamlets in east london a third of the residents here a bangladeshi in fact they outnumber the white brits in this area by two thousand people so if you want to just say that they're baffled at just how quickly the number of indigenous brits has diminished over the past decade some put it down to a case of white flight they say that caucasian brits are moving out of the country's most diverse areas there are people in this country who have racist motives who simply don't want people because of the color of their skin. in the city but there are a lot of genuinely decent people who do have concerns and even the labor party has

discovered recently that the vast majority of people do so right those who would. naturally. for the labor party have conserves and that's something that no government can ignore the leader of the opposition labor party recently admitted that his party got it wrong on immigration and to those who lost out we were too quick to say like it's all input. the truth is the public were ahead of us in seeing some of the problems of migration because they were seeing them in their own communities. and they were ahead of us in seeing the course of migration as a whole poll after poll shows that the people living here are worried about the speed and the size of the influx. for my opinion i don't think you. need more immigrants over the moment i do love the movie. critics say the

government is too frightened to address what britain will look like in fifty years' time it's going to look like. it's going to be a complete population change the indigenous population is shrinking anyway the younger generation and the younger muslim generation is becoming increasingly radicalized and i think it's probably. twenty twenty five twenty. demographers say that if immigration continues on a similar scale the white british population throughout the country will become a minority after twenty sixty six but with less than half of londoners already describing themselves as white british some say that a quiet and irreversible revolution has already taken place in britain. at sea east london. a wave of shock has shaken the catholic world

after pope benedict announced he's throwing in the towel at the end of the month and the first papal abdication in centuries development followed a series of sex abuse scandals plaguing the catholic church all around the world. child abuse campaigner says the outgoing pope has failed to solve this core problem within and deep inside the walls of the catholic church. we believe that he uttered words he said there was filth in the priesthood he apologized to the victims but he took no action he didn't discipline a single church official for hiding enabling children to predators or you know moving them from country to country from diocese to diocese so until he does that nothing has changed and we believe the words were just empty empty promises if the people be protected these predators are promoted by cardinal law was in boston the

scandal was huge and yet cardinal law managed to land in in the vatican on the most powerful committees that exist within the vatican so to the message we believe he sent was if you are unable shield and protected predators you will be rewarded and we don't feel that's the right message we feel that he should be taking action we have a bishop in the united states that was convicted of child endangerment and is still being allowed to run a diocese what kind of a message is that to send to the world i would expect more of the same since those that enable and shield and protect continue to be promoted to continue to be given the most powerful positions within the vatican the message is clear if you follow the company line if you keep this secret if you put the reputation of the church above this of the children then you will be promoted what a terrible message to send many people no longer trust church officials like they did in the past and that's a very sad statement that you can't trust your bishops. all right i'm twenty

minutes past the hour here in moscow let's get to the oxy world update now very quickly for you some global headlines in brief the french and the mali and troops say they've regained control of the northern city of gal and that's after islamist militants launched a surprise attack on what is one of the country's most populous cities say three civilians were killed during the fighting fronts claims its military campaign in the west african state is almost complete with insurgents pushed out of the cities towards the desert area near the algerian border. at least fifteen hundred people took part in a so-called hunger march in the capital budapest protesters shouted slogans against the rising cost of living and poor employment prospects and the march was joined by members of the opposition hung garion socialist party who are demanding wage raises and several days. of the syrian president bashar al assad has reshuffled his cabinet appointing new oil finance and agriculture ministers among

others the move seen as an attempt to straighten the path of the country's war ravaged economy and improve the worsening humanitarian situation and this comes as rebel forces pushed army units out of a key hydroelectric dam and what's seen as a major setback for the government a severe battles have also been raging in the capital damascus suburbs suburbs for a fourth consecutive day. at least twelve people most of them soldiers have been killed in a suicide bombing and gun attacks in the northern iraqi city of mosul most of the damage was caused when a car packed with explosives was rammed into a military checkpoint and the bombing is thought to be related to the ongoing sectarian conflict in the country with the sunni minority protesting against what they call quote unfair treatment from the shia led government. barack obama is set to deliver his first state of the union address of his second

term with immigration gun control in a troubled economy ranking very high on the agenda and the president's also expected to touch upon america's foreign policy as the u.s. administration seeks to justify the killing of terror suspects a lot of including american citizens with drone strikes abroad human rights lawyer stanley cohen says these targeted assassinations are actually that of murder. we're not at war in pakistan we're not it war in yemen we're not at war in lebannon we're not in war in somalia if you want to clear war if you want to follow international law if you want to make your case you play by the rules the fact of the matter is no matter what you call this it's murder it's assassination it's illegal we're talking about murdering civilians we're talking about attacks by drones in countries that are our allies if there were a person is there that we are want that are wanted american citizens yemenis citizens pakistanis citizens somali citizens for crimes here you go to the

countries yeah extradite him you charge him you bring him to trial the united states under international law cannot must not enough to no stretch of the imagination is justified in the use of drones in the execution and the extrajudicial assassination of not just americans of anyone overseas for years we have charged people we have extradited people we've indicted people we've convicted many people charged with crimes of terrorism and it's worked before but this is an administration which is a namrud with clean murder with clean killing that's what president obama likes and now we're just trying to clean it up further. well it is a good to have you with us here on a hot seat today if you can just stay with us for a second we have a special report on how household rubbish has become a vital lifeline for many palestinians this is also a. some

countries want oil but that's kid stuff who needs oil when you could secure the world's largest supply of truck so-to located exclusively in. sweden and meeting sweden for absolutely no logical reason is a possible you say well supreme commander of the swedish armed forces general sphere guru and son must have watched red dawn too many times because he thinks the russians are a common general durance and declared that if invaded by russia sweden wouldn't be able to last a week against the onslaught therefore sweden must immediately join nato he said that currently it is not quite possible to invade sweden but due to the two thousand and eight war with georgia it is possible for russia to somehow push through established european borders bring their forces up to sweden gates putting

the generals country in danger but guess what according to your own council of the european union georgia started the war so by that logic if the two thousand and one with georgia is the example of the future then don't kill russian peacekeeping troops and you'll have nothing to worry about but general gordon so also made the point that president putin is rearming the russian army hinting at a threat of being heavily armed to defend yourself is a bad scary thing then joining up with nato seems to be pretty hypocritical if the people of sweden want to join nato well that is their choice but they shouldn't be tricked into having their taxpayers pay for their sons to die in afghanistan based on totally bogus arguments that make no sense but that's just my opinion. is to get rid of. the treasure.

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